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Sunday, January 29, 2012

29 January - Blogs I`m Following

The rest of the country also experienced a decline in crime over the 1990s, but New York's was twice as large and has lasted twice as long. So what has the city done differently? Rather than focus on imprisonment, New York has hired more police officers and changed its policing strategy.
The results of this experiment contradict four decades of crime-control orthodoxy.

The Jurist explains the math. While Stephen 'Jets & Jails' Harper did not directly mention raising Canadians' OAS pension eligibility age from 65 to 67 in his SOTU speech from the Davos 1%-ers bunfest...

EXCELLENT! *Cartoon Brew* is a fine site for classic animation aficionados. As Jerry wrote: Here’s the perfect film for me to post in the middle of the night. *Andres Tapeton’s graduation film from the Cl...

"This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeits of our own behaviour) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars: as if we were villains...

"Are There Any Questions?" by Robert Fulghum "Are there any questions?" An offer that comes at the end of college lectures and long meetings. Said when an audience is not only overdosed with information,...

*1-2-3-4. * "Environmental groups in Northwest sue over effect Navy’s sonar use has on marine life SEAT­TLE - Conservation­ists and Native American tribes are *su­ing* over the *Navy’s expanded use of so...

If you live in America, you cannot escape the result of the Supreme Court decision in 2010 that changed political campaigns. Known as *Citizens United *, this decision allowed those with big checkbooks to...

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Western Turkey at a depth of just 2 km (1.2 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 21:03:01 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 26 ...

Iran sent conflicting signals in a dispute with the West over its nuclear ambitions on Sunday, vowing to stop oil exports soon to "some" countries but postponing a parliamentary debate on a proposed halt ...

Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- Fourteen people were killed and another 60 were injured in Indonesia over a four-day period as a result of Cyclone Iggy, according to the country's National Disaster Management...

Occupy protesters broke into Oakland City Hall, damaging displays and burning an American flag, the culmination of protests Saturday that saw police and protesters trade allegations over who was responsi...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday met with Libya's prime minister during the African Union summit, and expressed "support for the interim government's work," according to a U.N. statement. The...

An unmanned Israeli airplane capable of reaching parts of Iran crashed during an experimental flight Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces said. The Eitan-type drone spun in the air, lost a wing and crashed i...

Some weeks ago, I urged Canada's two main opposition parties to set aside their differences and work together for the greater good. Perhaps "urged" isn't the right word. But I'm moved to reiterate by re...

The U.S. Defense Department cannot account for about $2 billion it was given to cover Iraq-related expenses and is not providing Iraq with a complete list of U.S.-funded reconstruction projects, according...

At least 62 people were killed in Syria on Sunday, according to an opposition activist group, as the Arab League suspended a monitoring mission designed to protect Syrian civilians from government-sponso...

There are two principal reasons why the U.S. presidential election doesn't matter. Corporate money's death grip on both parties is one. Election fraud is the other. Long-time readers of wmtc may recall a ...

Occasionally a bit of slime seeps from the sewer of the Republican primaries into my oxygen, and I feel the need to share the smell. When a public figure says that a pregnancy from rape is a silver linings...

Several years ago I became somewhat infamous (in some circles) for telling one of my volunteer groups that I didn't think they should send any contributions to any organizations associated with the Clinton...

*"30 Statistics That Show The Middle Class Is * *Dying Right In Front Of Our Eyes"* By Michael Snyder "Once upon a time, the United States had the largest and most vibrant middle class that the world has ...

Berhampur (Odisha): With the death of 16 crows at Mudulipalli village in Odisha's Ganjam district in the span of two hours, triggering avian influenza scare in the area today. "We have found 16 dead crow...

More than 1,000 prisoners in Kyrgyzstan have sewn their lips together after a 10-day hunger strike in apparent protest at poor jail conditions. Meanwhile, authorities blamed organised criminal gangs for i...

A teenage girl has died after being hit by a train at a foot crossing in what is thought to have been a "tragic accident", police said. The 15-year-old, who has not been named, died after she was struck a...

A multi-million pound lawsuit has been filed in the US by passengers who were onboard the Costa Concordia when it ran aground in Italy. The six passengers are claiming £292m in damages against the owners...

*"America's Education System Teaches 'How to Become a Serf'"* By John Kozy "Educational systems now train workers to fulfill the needs of companies. A society in which people exist for the sake of compani...

Benny Peiser has pointed out the following good news coming from Bloomberg: Spain Suspends Subsidies for New Renewable Energy Power Plants Spain is finally doing something about its fiscal sustainability...

An SUV ignored flashing warning lights and veered around a rail crossing arm moments before it collided with a light-rail train, killing two adults and an 18-month-old boy in the vehicle, authorities said...

The Pentagon has made a secret request to develop its largest bomb because officials believe it is not capable of destroying Iran's fortified underground facilities. The 13.6 ton Massive Ordnance Penetra...

A teenager was arrested on murder charges in Oakland, California, after police found the bodies of his parents, two highly-educated civil servants, stashed under a blanket inside the family car. Police w...

The husband of a mother-of-two found strangled on the back seat of her Mercedes Benz has reportedly failed a lie detector test. Bob Bashara, who gave a series of emotional interviews following the discov...

*No wonder health care costs are so high*: "Hospitals woo patients with free parking, other perks; Marketing key as more take role in picking provider" by Michelle Andrews | Washington Post, January 29,...

Same question that I asked of conservatives. With the debates winding down for this cycle, what lessons if any should Democrats learn for 2016 about the way they were organized? What worked? What didn't? ...

"Blood found at site where Maine girl vanished" by Brian MacQuarrie | Globe Staff, January 29, 2012 WATERVILLE, Maine - Shortly after a prayer vigil ended for a 21-month-old girl who vanished six weeks...

Normally I don't post on the week-end. But what is normal about the goings on in the world. If you didn't read the previous post on Syria, please do. But before you do, take the time to read this editorial. ...

Chimpanzees are being kept in research centres their whole lives and deliberately infected with killer diseases, a process activists describe as 'torture'. The plight of these laboratory apes has been hi...

A thug who left a man's hand hanging by a thread of skin after he attacked him with a machete in a revenge plot has been jailed for 10 years. The attack left his victim requiring a 12-hour operation to ha...

We may be done with the debates, so it's perhaps a good time to look back: what about the debates worked? What didn't work? What should Republicans, as a party, attempt to do differently next time around?

At least nine people died in a series of crashes apparently caused by heavy smoke and fog overnight on Interstate 75 in north Florida, authorities said Sunday. Florida Highway Patrol Lt. Patrick Riordan ...

A Saudi prince once quipped, "the Stone Age didn't end because they ran out of stones." His point was that the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil. He is right. There are a number o...

*There are funny storms too!* *Alexander Prior conducts the deliciously raging thunderstorm in Act II of Rossini's Barber of Seville at the Chuvash National Opera in the Volga River port of Cheboksary, ca...

No babies at the hospital have tested positive for pseudomonas bacteria which has killed four newborns in Northern Ireland. Another Northern Ireland hospital has reported an outbreak of the bacteria that...

Today it's sharing time - I have to try to fix the pictures on the DeadTreesDyingForest website! Besides, these are two excellent essays that precisely express my sentiments much more concisely than I cou...

Statement by Evangelos Venizelos in response to media reports about a 'proposal for the appointment of a special EU Commissioner in charge of the Greek state budget execution,' In response to media repor...

[image: Native people of the Gwichin Nation formed a human banner on the banks of Alaska's Porcupine River in in 2010 to protest environmental damage done by oil firms. 'Around the Arctic there is neithe...

Around 2,000 Syrian troops backed by tanks launched an assault to retake Damascus suburbs from rebels on Sunday, activists said, a day after the Arab League suspended its monitoring mission in Syria becau...

[image: Aerial view of Nagasaki after the U.S. atomic bombing, on 9 August 1945. via nuclearflower.com] By arevamirpal::laprimavera 28 January 2012 Toshihiro Takatsuji, associate professor at Nagasaki ...

[image: Dying forest near South Sister, Smith Rock State Park, Oregon. Robert Brown] Prominent doom blogger Gail Zawacki, of Wit’s End fame, has succumbed to the demands of her high-school-aged kid and ...

Notorious meddler Robert Amsterdam back in Thailand. by Tony Cartalucci January 29, 2012 - Globalist lawyer Robert Amsterdam of Amsterdam & Peroff, a Chatham House corporate member, was spotted at Thailand...

[image: images 234] Part one of my response to Obama’s 2012 State of the Union is here. 3. The *foreign policy section was weaker and more militaristic than usual*. The opening bit about the Iraq war maki...

Last week, 33 of 99 beached whales were shot in New Zealand after they returned from the sea, and over 70 dolphins have died in similar events on the other side of the world, on Cape Cod. When there is no...

*by Noah* It’s hard for *any* total freakazoids to stand out in Florida. The competition is fierce. But two big-name freaks have certainly been trying to stand out this week. In the “It Doesn’t Get Any...

Five birds found dead in Causeway Bay yesterday are being tested for the H5N1 virus, just weeks after a ban on live chicken sales was lifted. Meanwhile, a ranger who handled a dead bird at a family camp s...

The number is now more than two dozen girls, all with Tourettes like symptoms, including twitching, jerking and vocal tics. As our health reporter Marcie Fraser reports, the case spans New York State and ...

BOSTON — Whether they got lost, sick or swam astray chasing food, 77 dolphins that beached on Cape Cod in recent weeks have died, the second time in three months New England has seen a mass of marine mamm...

KOLKATA: After ignoring the mysterious crow deaths in the city for nearly two months, the state government flew into action mode on Saturday and sent scientists to Rabindra Sarovar to gather carcasses and...

IMF pushes Greece over budget The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has signalled that Greece will have to give up autonomy over its budget as desperate last-minute negotiations continue to agree the cou...

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith insisted today that Britain would block eurozone countries from using institutions paid for by EU nations. The former Tory leader insisted he had absolute "t...

21st Century Teachers: Easy to Hire, Easy to Fire Detroit rises to the status of a major character in Jeffrey Eugenides's * Middlesex*. About a fifth of the way into the novel, the narrator, Calliope/Cal S...

TEHRAN — Officials from the UN atomic watchdog began a visit to Iran on Sunday to discuss Tehran's suspect nuclear drive, amid a backlash by furious Iranian lawmakers at a looming EU oil embargo. The thr...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will "actively support" French President Nicolas Sarkozy, a fellow conservative, in his spring campaign to win re-election, her Christian Democrat (CDU) party in Berlin sai...

Last week, the Indian Navy commissioned a nuclear powered submarine called INS Chakra. The 8,000 ton vessel built by Russia has been taken on lease for a 10 year period, at a cost of almost $1 billion. The...

The People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) J-20 Mighty Dragon 5fifth generation fighter aircraft goes into the vertical climb. The J-20 fighter aircraft flew for the first time in January last year. Re...

Around 20,000 passengers across Europe and Africa have been left stranded or forced to find new flights after the collapse of Spain's fourth-largest airline, Spanair. Six-hundred-and-forty-seven flights w...

The Z-8 Super Frelon Airborne Early Warning (AEW) helicopter has been developed to meet the requirements of People's Liberation Army Navy (PLA Navy) for an early warning platform capable of operating from...

*With greatest surprise*, even astonishment, I noticed that from April 1 (aka 'April Fools Day') an "e-Petition Project" will become in effect to make Europe more 'democratic'. Any group of 1 million peop...

A 15-km (10 mile) stretch of crisp white beach is one of the key battlegrounds in Singapore's campaign to defend its hard-won territory against rising sea levels linked to climate change. Stone breakwate...

A FT-7 fighter jet trainer of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has crashed near Mianwali while it was on training mission. Read more: http://pakmr.blogspot.com/2012/01/pakistani-female-fighter-pilot-injured.ht...

HQ Video of Aerial Display by JF-17 at Dubai Air Show 2011 Pakistan Air Force is participating with seven aircrafts at the Dubai Airshow 2011. Organisers of the Dubai Air Show 2011 has said that pp to 1,00...

“No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playi...

A new team of U.S. trade enforcers will make countries think twice about putting up unfair barriers to American exports, President Barack Obama's top trade official said. U.S. Trade Representative Ron Ki...

The growing power of a rebel army has seen control of the Syrian capital of Damascus split between rival gunmen fighting for or against President Bashar Assad. Two days of bloody carnage in which at leas...

Maine State Police investigators have been analyzing blood that was found in the home where baby Ayla Reynolds was reported missing six weeks ago, an official said Saturday. The revelation comes as inves...

An on-duty police officer who was under investigation for an alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl has been shot dead by fellow officers. The 29-year-old cop, who worked for Santa Maria pol...

A 24-year-old snowboarder has been killed after triggering an avalanche in back country which officials had warned the public against using after a bout of violent snowstorms. Alecsander Barton, original...

About 300 people were arrested in Oakland yesterday during a chaotic day of Occupy protests that saw demonstrators break into City Hall and burn an American flag, and police fire tear gas and use 'flash' g...

A bitter husband has been charged with killing his estranged wife and her lover after he had swapped partners with her new man. Lloyd Hill is accused of beating Frederick Tarantino, 43, to death with a b...

*Peter Lemesurier* According to author *Peter Lemesurier*, in his book "*Beyond All Belief*": *1.* "Your triumphs and disasters, the whole unrolling tapestry of your daily life turns out to be an educati...

Anonymous baby drop boxes have been introduced for the first time in Russia . The Krasnodar Territory in south Russia bought five of the so-called baby drop boxes in the beginning of November so mothers c...

Economist Nouriel Roubini, nicknamed 'Dr. Doom' for his gloomy predictions in the run-up to the financial meltdown four years ago, says the fallout from that crisis could last the rest of this decade. Dr...

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck near the Coast of Western Turkey at a depth of 140 km (86.8 miles), the quake hit at 08:06:24 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 18 km (10.8 miles) Southe...

We are on a dirt track snaking its way uphill through rice paddies and groves of yellow bamboo. Behind us, spread out across a vast, smoggy plain, are the homes of tens of millions of dirt-poor migrant wo...

A leading Somalia journalist was shot outside him home in Mogadishu on Saturday and died on the way to the hospital, according to other journalists. Hassan Osman Abdi, 29, was the director of Shabelle Me...

Thousands of Yemeni air force personnel rallied in the capital Saturday to demand the removal of the president's half-brother as the country's air force commander. They marched in front of the Sanaa home...

The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years. The figures sugg...

"An Age of Hell is now upon us: The earthly body pierced with spears." - Arthur Rimbaud, 'On The Subject of Flowers: Remarks, Addressed To The Poet,' July 14, 1871. (1). "A culture like ours -- a culture...

One of the country’s top private hospital chains has warned surgeons not to use a second type of breast implant because of fears it could be linked to cancer. Following the scandal over faulty PIP implan...

German calls for an EU bureaucrat to be given complete control over the Greek economy sparked fury yesterday – with eurosceptics in Britain urging Athens to resist ‘economic domination’. Under the extra...

A man has been charged with the murder of a toddler in Staffordshire, police have said. The 18-month-old boy, who has not been identified, was taken by paramedics from a house in Meir to the University H...

Fire swept through a rehabilitation clinic for drug addicts and alcoholics in Peru, killing 26 patients who were reportedly locked in to stop them from fleeing during treatment. Several survivors said t...

UN nuclear inspectors have arrived in Iran to investigate the suspected development of atomic weapons - on the day lawmakers are expected to ban oil exports to Europe. Iran - which could implement the em...

The Government must take action to clean up party political funding before another "scandal intervenes", an MPs' committee has warned. The MPs called on the Coalition to stick to pledges to reform party ...

In recent months, many TRF articles were dedicated to the CMS' search for multilepton (and multijet) signatures of supersymmetry or similarly behaving new physics. Quite many of them reported some excesses...

A magnitude 3.2 earthquake has struck Wyoming at a depth of just 6 km (3.7 miles - Poorly Constrained), the quake hit at 03:46:24 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) East of Atl...

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Southwestern Siberia, Russia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 02:34:55 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) East of Kaa-khe...

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines at a depth of 384.4 km (238.9 miles), the quake hit at 00:06:51 UTC Sunday 29th January 2012 The epicenter was 48 km (29 miles) WSW of General Sa...

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck New Zealand at a depth of 9 km (5.6 miles), the quake hit at 22:56:11 UTC Saturday 28th January 2012 The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) ESE of Westport, New Zealand No ...

*Ghana - by **Wieland Koerbel* "The US Africa Command is now at war on the continent of Africa. "And not surprising, the war is about oil." (AFRICOM Goes To War In Africa -m) Ghana made its first big oil...

*ANARCHIST THEORY:* *DIFFERENT SORTS OF FREEDOM:* My dear mother, God rest her soul, used to regale me with stories of the most stupid family in the patch of geography where she grew up. She was born ...

*Potential hit man?* The Republican Party sure has changed. The GOP was once as anti-Semitic as it's now anti-Hispanic and anti-African American. And it was certainly the anti-Zionist party. Now, of cours...

"Illuminated by an eerie greenish light, this remarkable little planet is covered with ice and snow and ringed by tall pine trees. Of course, this little planet is actually planet Earth, and the surroundin...

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’ By George Lakey While many of us are working to ensure that the Occupy movement will have a lasting impact, it’s worthwhile to consider other co...

Photo courtesy: szatmarr666/CC BY 2.0 An article was written lately about the FAA Allowing Whooping Cranes To Resume Migration Flight to Florida. This was a feel-good story in which the FAA, charged with ...

Photo courtesy: Bonnie Alter It's eccentric and completely outrageous but it is gorgeous. This cape, on display in the exhibition "Golden Spider Silk" at London's Victoria & Albert Museum through June 5,...

Photo courtesy: xlibber Over the next three decades, the human population is projected to reach 9 billion people. In that same time, Sumatran elephants, currently numbering around 2,500 members, are expec...

Very interesting story about how the house came to be. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade; and, that's exactly what Frank Buckley did. When life gives you a global economic crisis, a gloomy real ...

*Capitalism, in its current form, no longer fits the world around us.* When a high priest of Davos says this, I can't help but wonder. Has the idea reached a tipping point? Harper may have "unveiled hi...

*BILL PRESS*: Is President Obama really a populist, or does he just play one on television? *MATT TAIBBI*: When it comes to the Wall Street stuff that I cover, there's a lot of enthusiasm. Even in the la...

FEMINISM/POLITICS - Many female veterans who fought overseas in Afghanistanand Iraq are now homeless and unable to find work. How did this happen? When returning from Afghanistan and Iraq many female veter...

*“A Sense Of Place”* by Chet Raymo “It would be hard to find two writers more different than Eudora Welty and Edward Abbey. Welty was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of stories and novels who lived all h...

Reproduced from Bioedge.org, written byMichael Cook. Here is contrarian bioethics at its best. Pregnancy and childbirth are so painful, risky and socially restrictive for women that public funding should ...

We're not going to take it! The CPS Grind on Teachers by Katie Osgood Recently, in Chicagoland, a story hit the papers about a teacher committing suicide. She wrote in her suicide note that the major reas...

*The woman* really needs to hire a research assistant who *can click on and read the results* of any one of these links. Unlike Wente's fawning over Charles Murray's latest piece of fiction based on fant...

*"Oh Not Again!"* by Karl Denninger "'On Wednesday the Federal Reserve shared its thoughts on the course of interest rates—but not on the implications for the value of the dollar. The two can't be discon...

The theory was that a feisty Republican primary would introduce Mitt Romney, long ordained as the ultimate selection of the Republican Party Establishment, to the public through a series of exciting, nic...

*Greg nails it.* The Harper agenda to carry out "pension reform" because the population of seniors in Canada threaten to undermine the economy is based solely on ideological propaganda and not an analysis...

There has been a significant uptake in quake activity in the Pacific region, with the Kermedec Islands having experienced multiple 5.x+ magnitude events in the past several hours. This may be an indicator ...

*TODAY IN HISTORY:* *CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY JOSE MARTI BORN:* On this day in 1853 Cuban revolutionary José Marti was born. An early advocate of both independence from Spain and resistance to the imperiali...

http://www.potrblog.com/ Saturday, January 28, 2012 Weaponized Fukushima Fallout: Radioactive Fullerenes and Endofullerenes Abstract of Potrblog video: "The improvised use of salt water to cool the Fuku...

MEXICO CITY (BNO NEWS) -- An ongoing swine flu outbreak in Mexico has left at least 29 people dead and nearly 1,500 others infected, health officials confirmed on Saturday. Thousands more are also ill as ...

Here is some of the latest- Russia and the UN concerning Syria Following a lengthy closed door meeting Friday afternoon on a draft resolution proposed by France, Britain and Morocco, the UN Ambassador from...

Deep down on the bottom of the Baltic Sea, Swedish treasure hunters think they have made the find of a lifetime. The problem is, they're not exactly sure what it is they've uncovered. Out searching for ...

Syria has hit out at the Arab League after it suspended its monitoring mission, saying it is an attempt to influence the United Nations Security Council. The claim was made by Syrian state television, w...

*First they suspended MAS. Then they suspended the students. Now they've come after the books. * *By Roberto Rodriguez* *Censored News* If you missed Thursday's teach-in at the U of A by suspended Wa...

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 13.8 km (8.6 miles), the quake hit at 19:05:18 UTC Saturday 28th January 2012 The epicenter was 342 km (212 miles) East...

Dying Honeybees: It Was the Insecticides All Along By Jeanne Roberts, Celsias 28 January 12 http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/9659-dying-honeybees-it-was-the-insecticides-all-along [exc...

The Gay Secretary Memo to President Barak Obama: this arms deal demonstrates (as if that reality *needed *any demonstration)is that for the United States Government, democracy and human rights are only a...

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 31.9 km (19.8 miles), the quake hit at 18:17:51 UTC Saturday 28th January 2012 The epicenter was 111 km (69 miles) Sout...

[image: In this undated file photo released by Transocean, the ultra-deepwater semi-submersible rig Deepwater Horizon is shown operating in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. AP Photo / Transocean]By Cain Burdeau ...

[image: Chinese parents with children suffering from respiratory ailments, possibly caused by air pollution, flock to the Capital Institute of Pediatrics in Beijing. Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times]...

Nigeria's army killed 11 suspected Boko Haram insurgents during a gun battle at a checkpoint in the Islamist sect's heartland of Maiduguri on Saturday, the field operations officer in the remote northeast...

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at a depth of 28 km (17.4 miles), the quake hit at 17:42:53 UTC Saturday 28th January 2012 The epicenter was 44 km (28 miles) ESE of ...

A man in Dorset has been left mystified after tiny blue spheres fell from the sky into his garden. Steve Hornsby from Bournemouth said the 3cm diameter balls came raining down late on Thursday afternoon d...

*NEVER GIVE UP!* At 11am PT today, Darcy will be over at Digby's Hullabaloo to talk with Digby about fixing Congress and answer questions from readers about her run for Congress. Back in 2006, when Blue...

[image: National current-account balances as a percentage of world gross product, 1996-2013. World Economic Situation and Prospects 2012 / IMF, World Economic Outlook database, September 2011.] The larg...

By David Ljunggren, with additional reporting by Jeff Jones in Calgary; editing by Peter Galloway 26 January 2012 OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada disassociated itself on Thursday from an embarrassing officia...

The elephant, a national symbol in Thailand, is facing a new threat because of a developing taste for its meat in the country, it was claimed today. The new interest in consuming the animal includes ever...

L'il Steve Harper has spent the past six or more years assuring Canadians at every opportunity that he really doesn't harbour any "secret agenda." Then he goes all the way to Switzerland, drops his pants, ...

The German government has called for Greece to hand control over its finances to the European Union in what would be an unprecedented expansion of Brussels' power. Under the plan, in order for the embatt...

Spanish airline Spanair went bust early Saturday, forcing many passengers to find seats on flights with other airlines at short notice. Spanair "announced that it has ceased its operations, and thus, it h...

I just discovered that my serious migraines and worsening photophobia are nodoubt caused by a pituitary tumor that I was diagnosed in 2008, but the doctorneglected to tell me was the cause of my migraine...

The Animal Humane Society is caring for 107 dogs and two cats after it helped authorities in northern Minnesota recover the animals Thursday evening from a property where two women lived in feces-littered ...

An East Bay dad claims a game of tag on the playground resulted in his 6-year-old son being accused of sexual assault – a decision he said was an overreaction by school officials. The parent, who asked on...

*FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012* *The role that was played by Chris Matthews:* By now, the gentleman has been repurposed. Today, Chris Matthews is a reliable member of the pro-Obama, pro-Democratic Party team...

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